Word: anthropologist
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DIED. WILLIAM HOWELLS, 97, anthropologist who, by using cranial measurements on 3,000 human skulls from around the world, provided the first objective grounds for the conclusion that humans are of one species--a critical finding during the mid-'60s, when racial differences were being vigorously debated; in Kittery Point, Maine...
...RingMyBell: YES “ANTHRO” IS THE GREEK ROOT FOR “PEOPLE” SO WHEN THE IDEA STRUCK ME TO INVENT IT THE NAME FOLLOWED PRETTY NATURALLY FM10543: hm so you are 1000 years old RingMyBell: ... FM10543: ... RingMyBell: I AM THE FIRST ANTHROPOLOGIST FM10543: ... RingMyBell: YES I AM 1000 FM10543: you mentioned the year 1943 RingMyBell: NO FM10543: was it a holocaust thing RingMyBell: WHAT FM10543: are you nazi RingMyBell: ANTHROPOLOGICALLY SPEAKING? FM10543: heh no just be honest RingMyBell: CAN I SEND YOU A PICTURE FM10543: no talk more about your role...
...John Calvert, managing director of the Intelligent Design Network, said the term “mythology” should not be used in connection with intelligent design since it connotes an idea that is unscientific. “These two courses are just a joke. A theologian and an anthropologist have no place in teaching intelligent design,” Calvert said. Both Hoopes and Mirecki cited their experiences at Harvard as very influential in their respective paths at Kansas. Hoopes, a former resident tutor in Dunster House, credited his work with retired Peabody Professor of Archaeology Stephen Williams...
...morals are the stuff of tyrants--or at least of Enron. The 16-hour workday filled with high stress and at-the-desk meals is the stuff of burnout and heart attacks. Even among kids, too much ambition quickly starts to do real harm. In a just completed study, anthropologist Peter Demerath of Ohio State University surveyed 600 students at a high-achieving high school where most of the kids are triple-booked with advanced-placement courses, sports and after-school jobs. About 70% of them reported that they were starting to feel stress some or all of the time...
When measuring ambition, anthropologists divide families into four categories: poor, struggling but getting by, upper middle class, and rich. For members of the first two groups, who are fighting just to keep the electricity on and the phone bill paid, ambition is often a luxury. For the rich, it's often unnecessary. It's members of the upper middle class, reasonably safe economically but not so safe that a bad break couldn't spell catastrophe, who are most driven to improve their lot. "It's called status anxiety," says anthropologist Lowe, "and whether you're born to be concerned about...